The Indira Gandhi National Open University’s (IGNOU’s) Chair for Sustainable Development (CSD) has launched a new online Appreciation Programme on Sustainable Management of Biodiversity (APSMB) for July 2012 session. Last date to apply for this programme is June 20, 2012.
The basic objective of this programme is to promote
awareness and capacity building for sustainable management of
biodiversity for mainstreaming biodiversity into the daily lives of
individuals, recreating and securing linkages between people and nature
and taking actions in a global context.
This Appreciation programme provides an
understanding of biodiversity science and will sensitise people to the
issues around biodiversity; threats posed to it and will promote the
conservation of biological diversity of ecosystems.
This programme also gives an insight to the
indigenous traditional related knowledge base that can compliment
scientific knowledge and can provide a basis to address issues of
sustainable development.
Graduate in any discipline is eligible to apply for
this one month online programme consisting of four blocks, namely, bio
diversity and its importance, agro biodiversity, threat to biodiversity
and sustainable use of biodiversity.
The programme shall be available online on the SAVE
(Sustainable Action and Virtual Education) platform, i.e.,
www.ignouonline.ac.in/save. it is a complete virtual learning
environment suite covering all the activities form registration to
programme delivery.
The eminent Agricultural Scientist and father of green revolution in India,
Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, is the Honorary Chair of CSD, IGNOU. The main
objective of the Chair is to develop and promote education for
sustainable development in India and capacity building in Sustainable Science.
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